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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lloyd Moseby drove in four runs and Jorge Bell cracked a two-run homer to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to at 8-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners last night in Toronto...
True to predictions by many experts, telephone rates have gone up, by an average of 37%, since divestiture, says the FCC. Price increases by Bell Atlantic, the holding company for telephone operations in six Eastern states and the District of Columbia, are typical. Its flat-rate charge for phone service jumped nearly 30% in Pennsylvania, the lowest monthly rate rising from $9.60 to $12.28. It has begun installing message-unit service in some areas, basing tolls on time and distance of calls. The company increased pay-phone charges from a nickel to 15? in the District of Columbia, and from...
...rate changes were increases. Significantly, Bell Atlantic has lowered some charges for urban users while raising them in suburban and rural areas, where the costs of providing service are higher. That is an example of de-averaging, a new way of pricing within a diverse geographic area. Urban users traditionally paid more for their service than it actually cost the phone company to provide it. This was to keep prices down for people in outlying areas. The goal now is to make users pay more of the true costs of the service they use. Robert Valentini, Bell Atlantic...
...telephones that would fit into Disney's Tomorrowland. With 35 buttons instead of the standard twelve, the UTX Five Star phones do a lot more than just give a dial tone. As in many hotels, guests can press different buttons on the phone for food, a bell captain, a maid, the valet service or medical aid. But they can also hit other buttons to adjust the temperature setting, change the speed of the fan and switch channels on the TV. If a guest forgets to bolt the door, a red light appears on the phone. Each unit is connected...
...authors did not rank their 100 best companies, but they did choose a Top Ten. In alphabetical order, they are Bell Laboratories, Trammell Crow, Delta Air Lines, Goldman Sachs, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Northwestern Mutual Life, Pitney Bowes and Time...